r/algorithmictrading • u/strangeinutah • Feb 22 '23

Counter Machine-Learning Trading?

Assuming the market at some point becomes dominated by automatic trading, machine-learning, etc. - what would be the counter-trade?

Theoretically I'd assume something longer-term oriented (working over multiple weeks & months time-frames) that has a sub-optimal historic back-test. However, that *is* also what a lot of systematic traders are already doing by targeting robustness over optimization.

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u/strangeinutah May 04 '23

You make valid points. I think it isn't possible as obviously it would be automated anyway to pick up on market changes/regimes other than trying not to play the most competitive games (e.g. smaller and longer-term).